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Indian schoolboy invents affordable smart spoon for trembling hands
A 17-year-old with a passion for robotics has produced a cheaper utensil that uses sensors to cancel out hand …
- Global development, Health, India, Infectious diseases, Society, South and Central Asia, Tuberculosis, World news
Better nutrition can cut risk of TB deaths by 60%, Indian study finds
Large-scale field trials that provided healthy food packages to sufferers and their families showed radical re…
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Indian doctors rebel over diktat to prescribe cheaper drugs
Indian Medical Association says that testing is substandard in the manufacture of generic medicines with ‘no g…
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India to revise colonial-era penal code and toughen laws protecting women
Home minister promises widespread reforms but some experts suggest the new laws are more a repackaging of exis…
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Indian opposition walks out as Narendra Modi refuses to discuss Manipur conflict
PM attacks opposition parties during no-confidence motion called to force him to address ethnic violence in fa…
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Ticket to freedom: free bus rides for women spark joy for millions in Karnataka
The state government has launched free bus travel for women in an attempt to boost employment, and the change …
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‘Separation is the only answer’: Manipur violence fuels calls for separate state in India
Leaders of the mainly Christian hill tribes say that living alongside the mostly Hindu Meitei people is ‘as go…
- Global development, Global health, Health, India, Society, South and Central Asia, Tuberculosis, World news
Victory over big pharma opens door to cheaper tuberculosis drugs
India’s patent office turns down bedaquiline extension to Johnson & Johnson, clearing the way for generic …
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A team of vets, four ‘kumki’ and one tranquilliser dart: the plan to capture Kerala’s marauding elephant
Known as ‘Rice Tusker’ for his insatiable hunger, the 30-year-old pachyderm has been terrorising the Indian re…
- Delhi, Foreign policy, India, London, Narendra Modi, Police, Protest, Sikhism, South and Central Asia, UK news, World news
India reduces security outside UK high commission in New Delhi
Barriers also removed from high commissioner’s residence after Sikhs protest at Indian mission in LondonNew De…
- Culture, Global development, Hip-hop, India, Music, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Who are you to stop me?’: the hip-hop group speaking up for India’s women
Rappers Wild Wild Women use their searing lyrics to highlight the treatment of their sisters in a socially con…
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‘They are invisible’: the migrant workers struggling in wake of India’s Covid response
As a new Guardian documentary explores the impact of one of the world’s strictest lockdowns, we speak to some …
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India bridge collapse prompts fears over safety of thousands of ‘distressed’ structures
Tragedy that killed 135 sparks safety fears over creaking colonial-era structuresThe collapse of a bridge in G…
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Gujarat bridge collapse: anger grows in India over cover-up claims
Questions asked after 135 people killed as to why repair contract was given to local firm better know for maki…
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Indian states ban guns and airguns to safeguard Amur falcons
Assam, Nagaland and Manipur officials also confiscate catapults and nets to ensure birds can recuperateOfficia…